Talk:John Holmes Jackson

GA review

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Nominator: Jon698 (talk · contribs) 06:06, 23 February 2025 (UTC)

Reviewer: LastJabberwocky (talk · contribs) 21:27, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

Hi, happy to pick up your nomination, love the artifact photos you added! —LastJabberwocky (Rrarr) 21:27, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

Could you be more specific about what reference has a Harv error? Everything looks fine on my side and I have an extension to find Harv errors. Jon698 (talk) 23:32, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

Here how it shows to me: "Mayor Jackson Questions Convention Bureau Claims". The Burlington Free Press. April 6, 1929. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com. Harv warning: There is no link pointing to this citation. The anchor is named CITEREFDoubt1929. —LastJabberwocky (Rrarr) 06:36, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

I have removed that reference and answered all of your comments below in these two edits 1 2. Jon698 (talk) 17:47, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for your work! I have no further suggestions, promoting

Copyright, images, and links

• all green with copyright Y
• The infobox image can be captioned; something like 'Jackson photograph published in 1911'  Done
• This image can be categorized  Done
• One of the references doesn't seem to be used in the article, displaying "Harv warning"  Done

Prose

• What if we move 'Composition of the Board of Aldermen' table below 'election history' table; to not break the article flow, and elections seem to be more important, it makes to put them first?  Done
• The 1920 Vermont Democratic Convention, which Jackson was a delegate to, ----> The 1920 Vermont Democratic Convention, where Jackson served as a delegate,  Done
• Jackson was a delegate to the 1924 state convention and defeated J.P. Kelly to become a delegate. Jackson returned to Burlington ----> Jackson defeated J.P. Kelly to become a delegate to the 1924 state convention. However, Jackson returned to Burlington  Done
• The 1936 state convention, which Jackson was a delegate to, ---> The 1936 state convention, where Jackson served as a delegate,  Done
• after which Frederick C. Hinchey was appointed ---> succeeded by Frederick C. Hinchey  Done

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Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Dclemens1971 (talk) 22:34, 6 January 2026 (UTC)

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A trolley being ceremonially burned on the day that Burlington, Vermont ended its trolley service

• ... that to mark the end of Burlington, Vermont's trolley system under Mayor John Holmes Jackson, a trolley was burned (pictured)?

• Source: "Little Opposition Indicates Discontinuance of Trolleys". The Burlington Free Press. May 21, 1929. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  Bushnell, Mark (February 18, 2024). "Then Again: Vermont's love affair with the trolley". VTDigger. Archived from the original on February 15, 2025.

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  • Comment: QPQ done.

Improved to Good Article status by Jon698 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 109 past nominations.

Jon698 (talk) 03:32, 2 December 2025 (UTC).

• I'll review this. Thriley (talk) 20:17, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Article has achieved Good Article status. No issues of copyvio or plagiarism. All sources appear reliable. Hook is interesting and sourced. Image good. QPQs are done. Looks ready to go. Thriley (talk) 19:28, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

Board of Aldermen table

Excellent work has been done on this article. Congrats on the well-deserved GA badge. I am not quite sure what to make of the Board of Aldermen table, though. I see 56 names there without any context, all but two of them not linked to any explanation about who these people were. Unless we can get some context, this seems to qualify as WP:INDISCRIMINATE. Surtsicna (talk) 19:46, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

That is the board of aldermen as existed during Holmes' mayoralty. Jon698 (talk) 20:08, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Right, but why do we need it? What does the name "Jed P. Ladd" tell us? How does the name "Jed P. Ladd" help us understand the life of John Holmes Jackson? Surtsicna (talk) 20:30, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

The composition of the board of aldermen matters to his time as mayor. What a mayor can do is based solely on whether or not he as the support of the board of aldermen. Jon698 (talk) 15:40, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

Whether he had the support of his aldermen cannot be ascertained by looking at that table. It's just a list of bare names, thus WP:INDISCRIMINATE (lacking context). Surtsicna (talk) 17:06, 3 December 2025 (UTC)